Translating Bongo

Translating Bongo is easy. All that is required is a good understanding of both English and the language you wish to translate Bongo into. Just follow these easy steps:

You will need the ISO code for the language you will be translating into. For example, French is fr, German is de, Italian is it, Portuguese is pt, etc.

• Checkout from Subversion:

svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/bongo/trunk/ bongo-trunk

• Configure Bongo. This will mean prerequisites will be required otherwise the configuration step will fail. One can find prerequisites on the Installation/Source page.

cd bongo-trunk/
./autogen.sh

• Update the pot file:

cd po/
make update-po

• Create a new po file based on language you will be translating into. In this example I'll use German:

cp bongo.pot de.po

• Edit the header of your new file as shown below. My additions for German are shown in red:

 "Project-Id-Version: <font color=red>de</font>\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bongo-devel@gna.org\n"
 "POT-Creation-Date: 2006-08-28 16:33-0400\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: <font color=red>2007-06-28 17:45+0100</font>\n"
 "Last-Translator: <font color=red>Hans Gerhard <translater@example.com></font>\n"
 "Language-Team: <font color=red>german</font>\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=<font color=red>UTF-8</font>\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
 <font color=red>"Plural-Forms:  nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"</font>

You should add the last line about Plural-Forms if it is missing.

• The other lines are the messages to translate from English. An example is shown below with my additions in red:

 msgid "Hello World!"
 msgstr "<font color=red>Hallo Welt!</font>"

• Save your changes and email the file as an attachment to bongo-devel@gna.org.

Other tips for translating

Using plurals

TODO

Current status of translations

Language	Status
English	100%